Thanks for your reply

Sorry gschaider, I cant understand ( Install them via the package manager of your distro) please be little brief. I am newbie

That is called differently in every distribution. The software you install software with (and probably also look for software with). yum, apt-get whatever (and I don't know the name of the GUIs for these. Especially not for Ubuntu)

Good Day gschaider,

I install openFoam 2.1 in ubuntu 11.01 in that i try to install swak4Foam, i got error like this, I follow these steps

Step 1: [ svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/openfoam-extend/svn/trunk/Breeder_2.0/libraries/swak4Foam/ ], copy & paste in terminal window

step 2: [ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/openfoam-extend/swak4Foam ] copy & paste in terminal window

upto this step it works

step 3: [ hg update port_2.0.x ] copy & paste in terminal, I got error like this,

toshiba@ubuntu:~/OpenFOAM/toshiba-2.1.0/swak4Foam$ hg update port_2.0.x
abort: no repository found in '/home/toshiba/OpenFOAM/toshiba-2.1.0/swak4Foam' (.hg not found)!

kindly let me know the step 3 is necessary? just I tried.

step4: ./Allwmake --->copy & paste in terminal window, I got error like,

toshiba@ubuntu:~/OpenFOAM/toshiba-2.1.0/swak4Foam$ ./Allwmake
No 'swakConfiguration'. Python etc won't work
Checking swak4Foam-version and generating file
abort: no repository found in '/home/toshiba/OpenFOAM/toshiba-2.1.0/swak4Foam' (.hg not found)!
Swak version is 0.2.4
No 'bison' found. This is absolutely essential for swak4Foam. Can't go on
Requirements for Library not satisfied. I see no sense in going on
toshiba@ubuntu:~/OpenFOAM/toshiba-2.1.0/swak4Foam$

Kindly help me, then next step what i have to do?

INSTALL bison! And make sure flex is also there.

Something like
but I'm not 100% sure as I don't have Ubuntu. Maybe a fellow Ubuntist can help you

Thanks for your response gschaider

I install bison, but it won't work, anyhow I try my best

Then you should get a different error. Or what do you mean with "it won't work". The README describes how to check for bison and flex

Good Day gschaider,

swak4Foam, right now it works( ubuntu 11.01 with OF 2.1) I follow these commands

(A) Install flex from terminal: sudo apt-get install flex
(B) Install bison from terminal: sudo apt-get install bison
(C) If you dont have gcc installed, you can get it using sudo apt-get install gcc

Hi Bruno,

I am also trying to install funkySetFields on my server. I found your post but stuck on the 1st step. Specifically, it showed 'svn: command not found' when I input
svn checkout https://openfoam-extend.svn.sourcefo...ies/swak4Foam/

Since I am not superuser of the server, 'yum install svn' doesn't work for my case. Do you have any idea on solving this problem?:confused:

Thank you!

Yijiu

Quick answer:

• You can try the tarballs: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...4Foam#Tarballs
• Or try the mirrors: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...r_repositories

Thank you Bruno! I have already downloaded the pack. I think it should be installed into FOAM_USER_LIBBIN.

What I did is:
echo $FOAM_USER_LIBBIN
it gave me:
/home/myname/OpenFOAM/myname-2.2.0/platforms/linux64Gcc45DPOpt/lib
but, there was no such directory before. Then, I created it.
My question is that, is this the right path? or I have to put it into
/home/myname/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.2.0/platforms/linux64Gcc45DPOpt/lib ?
What's the difference? It makes me a little bit confused...

Yijiu

Hi Yijiu,

Looks like you've never built source code in OpenFOAM. My advice is that you follow this tutorial to get to know how to build custom source code for OpenFOAM: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ho...ure_to_icoFoam

Regarding swak4Foam, run these commands:
Then unpack the file you've downloaded into the folder given by the last command.
And then rename the folder that was created when you unpacked the swak4Foam package, to the simpler folder name "swak4Foam".

And finally, follow the instructions given here: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...4Foam#Building

Best regards,
Bruno

I made it as your advice. Thank you Bruno!

Hello to everyone,
I would like to ask you a question about the installation of swak4foam. First of all,
i wrote this command to the terminal : "sudo apt-get install build-essential bison flex subversion git mercurial wget", then i download the files of swak4foam and i put them into the home directory. After that, i was into the file swak4foam with :"cd swak4foam" and then i wrote the above commands: "./Allwmake > make.log 2>&1".Finally i wrote again "./Allwmake" to see if everythink is ok and i had this message;what do you think?what is the problem?
Thank you

Greetings Tasos,

Quick answer, please read this page: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...Error_Messages

If after reading that page you are still unable to figure out if the output you got is OK or not, please state what specific lines you are concerned about.

Best regards,
Bruno

Mr Bruno ,
First of i would like to thank you for your quick response.I read the page you told and helped me a lot, but as a very new user i am not sure about some lines.

"SWAK_PYTHON_INCLUDE not defined .... no Python-Integration. Most people are fine without it"
"If you have your own function-plugins you can specify them using the SWAK_USER_PLUGINS environment variable and they would be compiled now. If you don't know what this means: don't bother. You propably don't need it"
"SWAK_PYTHON_INCLUDE not defined .... no Python-Integration. Utility funkyPythonPostproc not compiled"
"If you want to use swakCoded-function object or compile software based on swak set the environment variable SWAK4FOAM_SRC to /home/tasos/OpenFOAM/tasos-2.2.2/swak4Foam/Libraries (most people will be fine without setting that variable)"

You may find some of them silly but all of these stuff are very new for me.
Thanks a lot

No problem. And thanks for being more specific regarding which lines you were concerned about.
I didn't add more information about these lines in the wiki because:

1. Didn't feel necessary to explain, at least not yet, since the whole line has essentially the full explanation (i.e., I was lazy :D).
2. The instructions have a few months now... so I haven't updated yet :) (not as much as lazy, but more as limited time on my hands).
3. It's a wiki, anyone can edit it ;)

So, to detail each line:

1. Code:

   ---

   SWAK_PYTHON_INCLUDE not defined .... no Python-Integration. Most people are fine without it

   ---

   No problem here, unless you want to use "Python-Integration"; in other words, if you want to be able to execute Python scripts directly from a running OpenFOAM solver or utility.
2. Code:

   ---

   If you have your own function-plugins you can specify them using the SWAK_USER_PLUGINS environment variable and they would be compiled now. If you don't know what this means: don't bother. You propably don't need it

   ---

   I've never used this myself, but there is no problem here. It's just a friendly reminder that your own plug-ins could be built, if you already have them. But since it's the first time you're using it, it's unlikely that you'll need this feature right now.
3. Code:

   ---

   SWAK_PYTHON_INCLUDE not defined .... no Python-Integration. Utility funkyPythonPostproc not compiled

   ---

   Same as #1, only important if you want the feature "Python-Integration".
4. Code:

   ---

   If you want to use swakCoded-function object or compile software based on swak set the environment variable SWAK4FOAM_SRC to /home/tasos/OpenFOAM/tasos-2.2.2/swak4Foam/Libraries (most people will be fine without setting that variable)

   ---

   This is only necessary if you want to be able to use the swak4Foam's own "#codeStream" capabilities.

There is a "README" file in the main folder of swak4Foam, which tells you a bit more about each one of these features ;).

Mr Bruno thank you very much, you were very helpful :)

Illegal instruction
 

Dear Bruno and All,

I got an message when using groovyBC. Can you please give a hand on this? Thank you.

It seems to me the compiling process is okay. as see bellow for the second ./Allwmake;

Then funkySetFields gives the following message, also seems good.

But when I use groovyBC, it displays as

I have already added the following to system/controlDict

No idea. That happens before groovyBC had the chance to do anything and seems to happen during the loading of the libraries. Try
a) removing "libOpenFOAM.so" (this is only needed for paraFoam)
b) ./Allclean and ./Allwmake in swak4Foam

The OF 2.2.2-installation: is that a precompiled binary or did you compile it yourself?

Hi Bernhard,

Thanks for your kind help. With steps a) and b), the problem persists.

The OF2.2.2 was compiled by myself. There were some errors popped-out during installation, which never influences my daily use, but may cause the error to swak4Foam. I will try to re-install OF. Thank you.